In Wake Of Lafayette Shooting, Fox News Goes To O'Reilly Rerun

There was another mass shooting in the United States tonight. A gunman opened fire in a movie theater in Lafayette, Louisiana, killing two people and himself. Fox News covered the event during most of the Hannity show. But at 11PM ET, Fox left the news to rerun the night's The O'Reilly Factor. CNN and MSNBC stayed with the story.

They ran the usual BOR repeat, huh? Hmm, it does make one wonder why – but I feel quite secure in suggesting that if the heinous act at the theater had been perpetrated by a suspected/confirmed Muslim shooter, the BOR repeat would have been pushed aside.

I heard a report the other night about a FL gun shop owner who, after the Chattanooga, TN shootings, declared his business to be a Muslim-free zone. He said, “Now, I have a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety of all patriots in my community,” Hallinan said in front of a Confederate flag. “And so effective immediately I’m declaring Florida Gun Supply a Muslim-free zone.”

So, using that same logic, after last night’s shooting and the Aurora, CO shooting, perhaps movie theaters should be declared white male-free zones? Just sayin’…

@ Bob Roberts: “Hell, I’d rather hear about Kennedy’s start in news anyway, it must be more special than her career on MTV.”

Shoot — I thought her start in news WAS on MTV . . .

Do you think Fox’s apathy may have had something to do with the fact that the shooter was reported to be a white man?

I think Fox’s apathy had EVERYTHING to do with the fact the shooter was reported to be a white man.

Had the shooter been a minority/immigrant/Muslim/all of the above, Fox would have been on the story nonstop, would have had one of the victims’ family members on for an interview, said how it was one more example of an “illegal” committing a crime, called for closing the border, and reiterated how we need to start profiling based on race and/or religion (while decrying the need for any gun regulations.)

I don’t know about this, were any of the victims “beautiful” young women with their wonderful, giving, charitable lives ahead of them. If not, was the shooter another crazy white guy armed to the teeth, who of course was suffering from some mental illness, not like the shooter in San Fran who wasn’t mentally ill, but an illegal and a felon.

I guess it was the former. Chalk another white shooter up for mental illness. Nothing for O’Loofah to see here. Hell, I’d rather hear about Kennedy’s start in news anyway, it must be more special than her career on MTV.